No Place Like Home

[Photo-John]

p.p.s. Where'd the image in my original post go?

Looks like some sort of gallery error. I sent you a DM. If you send me the original I'll get it fixed for you.

[dana m.]

Yes, I really wanted to see the orignial also...especially after reading all the comments.

[draymorton]

Thanks, John. I just got the message. No worries.

Dana - the original had more on the left and was lightly less saturated. With lots more mistakes. If that helps.

[PhilF]

Seth... IMHO you are in the right track... the bushes and trees needs to be a bit more processed and illustrated..your chickens, wood texture and especially your subject has that. I know what you are trying to do here.... like Annie Leibovitz images of those Fairy Tale characters (which I like ).

try to see if you can contour(dodge and burn) more details on the model too.(her arms, back, cheeks, etc) ....emphasizing highlights and shadows more....Right now it's a bit flat.

[draymorton]

Thanks, Phil.

Bushes/trees - okay, I know what to do there. I was just about to do it, actually.

Contouring - can you help me out here? I know what you mean (see the subjects in the work of Olaf or Crewdson... or Leibovitz's more recent stuff) and I definitely agree that it needs to be done, but what is the best way to go about it? D/b on a softlight layer?

I'm also thinking about cropping in a lot tighter.

[armando_m]

Congrats on the sticky !

As for sharpening saving the jpg at 100% quality is what gives me best results when showing it here, but then I'm constantly bumping vs the size limit in the attachments, to get around that I have to upload it in the gallery and then post an image link in here

[PhilF]

Seth you got PM

[draymorton]

Thanks Armando.

Phil - got it, thanks. Will be posting another edit in a bit, with (some) contouring.

[draymorton]

Started the contouring, but not exactly sure if it's the right direction.

[GB1]

Dray - Congrats on a well deserved sticky. The image looks better and better with every edit. Nice work!

G

[draymorton]

Thanks GB!

[cameralover21]

its an art! like :-)